Tony Lentino

Instra has partnered with Kim Dotcom to power the new Mega. Last February I stumbled into the lobby of the Fairmont Santa Monica after a DomainFest party. It was about 3 in the morning and it had been a long night. I ran into Tony Lentino, founder of domain name registrar Instra . We chatted for a few minutes and the conversation turned to Kim Dotcom and Megaupload, the file sharing service that was shut down by U.S. and New Zealand authorities a few months later. Lentino is a personal friend of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. And he definitely as an opinion on the raid of Dotcom’s family home last year. He was miffed. Flash forward one year. This weekend Kim DotCom will introduce the successor to MegaUpload. The new service is simply called “Mega”. It’s still a file sharing service but with a twist: tou can only view files if you have a key provided by the uploader. If you...